[Marble-devel] Opencaching plugin

[Anders Lund]

On Tirsdag den 6. november 2012 11:05:35 Dennis Nienhüser wrote:
> Hi Anders,
> 
> the main issue were the terms of usage. IIRC the content was not
> available in a free way (cache descriptions written by users being most
> problematic). Torsten talked to them and there was some agreement on
> changes to the XML API even, but to my knowledge that was not
> implemented on the opencaching side.

According to the website, "All public, user submitted content in the 
OpenCaching.com database is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-
ShareAlike License (CC-by-sa)" [1]

Appearently they prefer to use JSON for data, alternatively GPX (but that 
would be feasible only in some cases of course.

Maybe I can find related mails in the maillist archieves?

> Regards,
> Dennis
> 
> Am 06.11.2012 10:36, schrieb Anders Lund:
> > I decided to see what the opencaching plugin does, so I fixed various
> > issues to make it compile, patch attached.
> > 
> > It works to some degree, Here is what I think:
> > *  it is very hard to click the caches, only a tiny area of them is active
> > (top right corner of the folder icon).
> > * It does not find the only opencaching cache in my area :$
> > 
> > 
> > I put a screenshot here:
> > http://owncloud.alweb.dk/public.php?service=files&file=/anders/files/Publi
> > c/marble- opencaching.png
> > 
> > Question to Daniel - do you intent to maintain it? Are the issues holding
> > it back being solved? (And, what are those issues anyway?)
> 
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Anders